{"id":750555,"date":"2026-02-14T02:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/750555\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T02:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:12:14","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-qb-aaron-rodgers-earns-high-spot-in-qb-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/750555\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers earns high spot in QB rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Steelers have made it clear that they would like to have Aaron Rodgers return for a second season in Pittsbugh, and a 22nd season in the NFL overall. The 42-year-old entered 2025 on a one-year deal with the intention of it being his final season. However, he kept the door open to return in 2026, and now the Steelers await his decision.<\/p>\n

In terms of his performance in 2025, Rodgers threw 24 touchdowns to just seven interceptions and led the Steelers to an AFC North championship. It\u2019s because of that year-long outing that Nick Shook of NFL Media ranked Rodgers as the No. 16 quarterback amongst all 63 to start a game in 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cAaron Rodgers bested Father Time for much of 2025 and is the primary reason the Steelers even reached the playoffs,\u201d Shook writes<\/a>. \u201cHe produced some of his best games of the last three or four years and can definitely still fill a starting job somewhere in this league if he wants it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodgers was sandwiched between Brock Purdy (No. 15) and Baker Mayfield (No. 17).<\/p>\n

Should Rodgers return, he would reunite with his former head coach in Green Bay, Mike McCarthy.<\/p>\n

Let us know what you think in the comments. Be sure to bookmark Behind the Steel Curtain for all the latest news, breakdowns, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers have made it clear that they would like to have Aaron Rodgers return for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[7,6,520,57,6416,2374,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-750555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-pittsburgh","11":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-commentary","13":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-news","14":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","15":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116066565786582904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}